"Salem is a free-to-play MMO game that is going to add something new to the genre with the concept of generations rather than just a single character through the game,” said Tom Söderlund, Project Lead for Paradox Connect. “If your character is killed in the game, and believe me it can be dangerous in Salem, their descendent has the ability to pick up where your character left off. The concept of revenge and towns policing themselves and even sanctioning hits on griefers is going to be a really compelling aspect. We know we’ll see some interesting things when the community finally has a chance to play Salem later this year.”

WyldKat wrote on Feb 10, 2011, 12:41:The Salem witch hunt was every bit as "light-hearted, charming, and cute" as the Holocaust.

The 10-year organized mass genocide of millions of hated peoples run by perhaps the most singular evil being in human history compares to a months-long, regional hysteria sparked by a few lunatic girls in what way exactly? The sense of scale is completely off. Heck they only similar items are death and insanity...and you find that at a soccer riot.

So, I guess you'd oppose a "light-hearted, charming, and cute" English soccer riot game then.

Clearly you need to read more history. Hitler wasn't even in the same class as many of history's great villains, he simply had the tools to expedite the destruction of a group of people he hated. And if you're talking about the witch trials specifically that ran on for several centuries all over the world costing 10s of 1000s of innocen women their lives. So no, not as bad when it comes to numbers, but just as unjust and cruel, so do the numbers really matter except for scale?